Manhood

The Rise and Fall of the Penis

Paper $25.00ISBN: 9781861898661
Published
October 2011
For sale in North and South America only

Cloth $35.00ISBN: 9781861895424
Published
January 2010
For sale in North and South America only

E-book $17.50 to $35.00ISBN: 9781861897084
Published
January 2010

In Manhood, experienced urologist and sexologist Mels van Driel offers an unprecedented history of the penis—with answers to everything you wanted to know, and even some questions you’d never thought to ask. Investigating the penis and its functions, van Driel’s work ranges from impotence to the speed of ejaculation, and from inguinal hernia to infertility. Psychological factors that have an impact on sexual experience, as well as contemporary phenomena, such as cyber sex, are examined along the way with good humor and much insight.

1 The Testicles and the Scrotum2 The Penis3 The Prostate and Seminal Glands4 Testosterone and Sperm5 Castration6 Ailments of the Scrotum7 Ailments of the Penis8 Voluntary and Involuntary Sterility9 Spilling One’s Seed10 Women11 Eroticism

Conclusion: That Wraps it Up

BibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex

Review Quotes

Barnes & Noble Review

"This vastly entertaining, eclectic book, written by a Dutch urologist, is full of myths, lore, natural history, and medical information about the male nether regions. . . . A compassionate . . . account of the long human strugle to understand—and to celebrate—the sometimes baffling workings of men and their malest members."

Globe and Mail

“Van Driel wants to do two things: to inform readers about the anatomy and workings of the penis, scrotum and the rest of it, doing so lightheartedly and with humor, as though a slightly boozy uncle were instructing you about how machine guns work; second, to entertain . . . [Van Driel] wears his learning lightly.” —Globe and Mail

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